The Polystyrene Page

A 1986 EPA report on solid waste named the polystyrene manufacturing
process as the 5th largest creator of hazardous waste.

The international trade agreement -- Montreal Protocol -- decided to phase-out
ozone depleting CFCs by the year 2000.

CFCs and HCFCs are the same? --
EPA Office of Air and Radiation: "Chemicals such as HCFC-22 contain
hydrogen....Thus, HCFC-22 is not technically a CFC."
***The industry succeeded
in legally changing the name of CFC-22, as had they called it for a half-century,
and renamed it (the 'environmentally friendly') "HCFC-22."

Chemicals like styrene, used to make
polystyrene plastic (Dow calls it styrofoam...shhh!) and therefore a
contaminant in all polystyrene foam packages, are known to indiscriminately
attack tissue and the nervous system.

Styrene has been detected in
factory air, as well as in ambient air, rivers, drinking water, and food that
sits in polystyrene containers.

Absorbed through the lungs, skin, and
intestines; styrene biotransforms into a carcinogen and a mutagenic compound.